Channel 4 Documentaries YouTube Stats

@channel4documentaries · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 7, 2026

Channel 4 Documentaries channel overview

Channel 4 Documentaries (@channel4documentaries) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2013. It has 1.1M subscribers and 378M total views across 1.6K videos, an average of 232K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 392K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 393K views. Over the last 12 months, Channel 4 Documentaries published 56 videos, and 0 of them (0%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 18 days, Channel 4 Documentaries gained 0 subscribers and 2.2M views, about 120K views a day.

How much does Channel 4 Documentaries make?

Returbe estimates Channel 4 Documentaries's YouTube ad revenue at $17K – $52K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.93 to $8.79, typically $4.88, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $4.9K.

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Upload schedule

Channel 4 Documentaries publishes about 11.9 videos a month. Based on its last 57 uploads, its most common upload day is Sunday (32% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Channel 4 Documentaries's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Channel 4 Documentaries's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• 23 Year-Old Murdered By Her Colleague In Warwickshire | 999: What Happened Next980K views · Oct 11, 20262.5× typical views
• Single Mum Murdered In Her Own Home In Hampshire | Murder Case: Digital Detectives978K views · Aug 3, 20262.5× typical views
• Teenager Stabbed In Broad Daylight In Kent | Murder Case: Digital Detectives946K views · Jul 29, 20262.4× typical views
• RAF pilot evades being ‘shot down’ in tough test #TopGunsC4516K views · Oct 26, 20232.2× typical views
• Chilean Burglary Gang In Surrey Tracked Down By Police To Airport | 999: What Happened Next805K views · Oct 18, 20262× typical views
• Car Theft Gang Hunted Down By Police In Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire | 999: What Happened Next714K views · Oct 4, 20261.8× typical views
• Teenage Boy Assaulted In Violent Car Park Ambush By Gang | 24 Hours In Police Custody707K views · Sep 13, 20261.8× typical views
• Britain’s Parakeet Invasion: How Did It Happen? | Invasion of the Parakeets | Channel 4 Docs676K views · Jun 23, 20261.7× typical views

Latest videos

8 of Channel 4 Documentaries's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Social Media Murders: The Teen Killers of James Gibbons and Elianne Andam | Social Media Monsters94K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• Inside Britain’s Care Home Experiment | The Experiment37K views · Nov 5, 20260.1× typical views
• I Catfished a Henchman Behind Syria’s Mass Killings | Killing Anna67K views · Nov 1, 20260.2× typical views
• New Head Girl, Bad Behaviour In Class & GCSEs Time! | Educating Greater Manchester30K views · Oct 30, 20260.1× typical views
• Inside Britain's Bike Theft Gangs | UNTOLD447K views · Oct 27, 20261.1× typical views
• Single Mum Found Dead In Nature Reserve In Wales | 999: What Happened Next569K views · Oct 25, 20261.4× typical views
• Taking care of Interactive Babies and Choosing Head Girl | Educating Greater Manchester52K views · Oct 22, 20260.1× typical views
• Britain’s Gaza Secrets Exposed | Dispatches107K views · Oct 20, 20260.3× typical views
• Chilean Burglary Gang In Surrey Tracked Down By Police To Airport | 999: What Happened Next805K views · Oct 18, 20262× typical views
• Competing for Head Girl and Making Prank Calls | Educating Greater Manchester89K views · Oct 15, 20260.2× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.8K videos from 610 channels in this niche. 9.1% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 23K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Criminally Obsessed (247K subs, best video 35.3×), Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (400K subs, best video 12.3×), Crime 360 (241K subs, best video 12.2×), Frontline Crime (78K subs, best video 25.3×), Queens of Crime - Female True Crime Stories (25K subs, best video 42.6×), Crazy planet (31K subs, best video 58×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with Channel 4 Documentaries or YouTube.